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The Scroll newspaper has been in print since 1905, when BYU-Idaho was known as the Ricks Academy, a locally run school with a newly-developed high school program. At the time this newspaper was known as the “Student Rays,” and was printed monthly. In 1933 the name of the newspaper changed to “The Purple Flash.” In 1937 the name was changed again to “Viking Flashes,” and in 1938 the name finally changed to “The Viking Scroll.” The paper continued under this name until 1972, when it changed to “The Scroll.” The Scroll is still in print at BYU-Idaho as its official newspaper.

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REXBURG, IDAHO VOLUME 104, NUMBER 45 THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1993
Racism: no stranger to Ricks
By AMY BUTTARS
Racism at Ricks? Most Caucasians may
say no, but students that are among a racial
minority at Ricks, an LDS Church school,
maintain that racism is a
problem.
Tolupeni "Jr." Salima, a ———————
sophomore from Carson
Calif., the 1993-94 ASRC
President, said there is
racism to a point at Ricks,
"but it is not too bad."
He said he felt needed to
prove himself when he
first came to Ricks.
"Most people think that
Polynesians are here to
play football, and I had to
prove to them that I
wanted to be here to learn
and not to play football."
Ricks College attracts students from
across the country. One student com­mented
that some students coi le from
small towns and are may not be accus­tomed
to seeing people of different races in
their classes and in their apartments.
"If you don't
look for racism
you can overlook
it and it won't
bother you."
-Tolupeni "Jr."
Salima
Salima said, "Once people know
something about a minority they general­ize
it for the entire minority."
Learning something from one person
about his/her culture
forces some students
m m m"^~m m m m m m m m into hasty generaliza­tions
and they are
often wrong about the
entire race. Salima
said he had a few
teachers that looked at
him as if he were in
the wrong class.
"They looked as if
they were thinking
'what are you doing
here, you're just going
to play football and
' " n o t worry about
class."'
Salima said some of the people he met
during his first year at Ricks were hesitant
to come and talk to him unless they heard
him talk in church, bear his testimony or
give them some reason to associate with
him. He advises students and faculty to
"just be yourself around people from
different backgrounds.
For some reason, American students
require foreign students to prove them­selves
to their peers, Salima commented.
" I just want to prove to people that we can
be leaders, students, in Show Time and
participate in other activities."
Salima said those looking for racism can
find it. However, he said, "If you don't
look for racism you can overlook it and it
won't bother you."
Miyuki Shiraiwa, a sophomore from
Fukuoka, Japan, said she felt pressure from
American students when she tried to speak
with them. "If we (foreign students) can't
talk to them in English very well, they
don't try to communicate with us because
they don't think we can understand them."
Shiraiwa said many Americans aren't
patient and "give up trying to understand
us rather than helping us." She said
everyone wants to be accepted despite a
problem speaking the language, but it is no
reason to be treated differently. "Just try to
be friends with us and don't give up
trying" Shiraiwa advised.
All
boxed
up!
With the end of
the Second
Summer Term,
Heather
Hallam, a
sophomore
from Peoa,
Utah, packs
preparing to
move to Idaho
Falls, Idaho.
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MAGGIE FREI